Is there any breakfast on par with Masala Dosai?
In Finland, the best breakfast, I can think of, is salted salmon on rieska.
Rieska is a round bread, like a chapati, made from wheat flour, corn flour and potato flour. You can buy it ready made, either as small round or square pieces or as larger ones about the size of a very large chapati.
This morning I was able to enjoy this breakfast as Annikki had prepared the salted salmon a couple of days ago (It takes a few days for the flavouring to permeate into the raw fish) and had kept it in the fridge under a weight.
Besides salt, the salmon was seasoned with freshly ground home grown pepper, which had been given to us by my cousin's wife, Annammakochamma (Mrs. Mammen Varghese) in Kottayam, Kerala, when we visted them a few weeks ago. It was also seasoned with fresh herbs. I used a little vegetable oil based margerine on top of the rieska.
Sitting, in the picture, at the back on the table is the delicious pulla (Finnish sweet bread), given to us yesterday, by Ani.
So has started a great Christmas Day, where I will do precisely nothing after making this blog entry, except have some tea with the pulla and then wait for the Christmas dinner (left overs from yesterday, along with the Christmas pudding we bought in London Airport two weeks ago! No lunch today, as I am still full from our last night's stuffing! :-)
The candles, which Annikki put out in the snow last evening, are still burning brightly.
Season's Greetings to all of you from wonderful Oulu.
